Sprite Stitch Quilt Finished~!

tnitnetny really pulled out all the stops on this one. It only took her a couple of days to complete our quilt, and here it is:

She also embroidered the Sprite Stitch and Child’s Play squares!
I love how it turned out, and I want to thank everyone who got involved
Our plan now is to get organised and send it to the Penny Arcade / Child’s Play dinner where it will be auctioned off. Hopefully someone there will love it as much as we do, and give lots of money!

Some other news now.
I haven’t been posting anything I’ve made lately because I’m working on a set of gifts in the current Sprite Stitch mini-swap. When my partner receives them, I’ll be able to post about them here. What I can say is the first one (that I’m working on now) is turning out really nice!

Also, someone on deviantArt told me that Game Arts tweeted about my Justin and Feena stitchings on their Twitter! I have thanked GA, of course, and they told me they were “very impressed” ! That made me happy
Many thanks go to all the people who found me because of that tweet, fav’d my work, and added my stuff to their dA group, #Icarians!

Back soon with more stuff!

Sprite Stitch Squares!

Alliteration aside, those of you who follow what I do here will already know that I’ve completed five squares for the Sprite Stitch charity project.
Today, I cleaned and stretched them all and got a few snaps of them before I send them off to tnitnetny!

Here they are, almost dry, on a bath towel

People keep asking me if I’m sad to see them go…and in a way I am, because I put a lot of work into these squares. But I’m also happy that they are going off to be part of something special
Also, I tried to come up with patterns that I liked but wouldn’t necessarily make for myself – for example I love Shiva, but if I was making one for myself, I would choose a different image of her. Same for the rest of the images I used. Also, I have ideas for similar projects but different enough that these squares are all one of a kind items (or I hope they are, anyway!)

I hope that whoever ends up with our finished project takes good care of it, remembers all the hard work we put into it, and ultimately what we did it for

Lots of thanks go to:
my best friend Nick – for his encouragement and all-round awesomeness
my crazy family – for their support and help with the little things
everyone who commented here on the blog and on deviantArt – your feedback means a great deal to me
and the awesome people of Sprite Stitch!

Well, almost at the end of this project…but of course I have many more lined up, as always

FFX Shiva – Complete!

Firstly, apologies for a lack of posting in the last week or so…I’ve mostly been stitching as well as spending some time gaming with my best friend (he’s pretty much the only thing that keeps me sane in these huge stitching sessions!)

But, as the title suggests, I completed Shiva!! (Stand back for best effect, lol.)

It’ll need a wash and iron but I’m so pleased it’s finished. And it looks ok! I think. Comments are very welcome!!

So, that’s three of my pieces for the Sprite Stitch quilts done…I have six more to go. I think I might drop the Super Metroid and Link to the Past ones if I start to run out of time, though. However, I’ve already started on the FFVIII Rinoa piece (I’d show a picture here but it’s kinda boring to look at – so far it’s about 20 stitches of off-white lol).

I’ve also started work on one of my pieces for the Patchwork Gym project – doing Staryu/Starmie first.

Pics of both WIPs soon! <3

Moar Shiva :D

A brief update on this week’s progress:

This is the point, for me, where stitchings start to look a bit weird. Some colours seem to me to be a bit off, or just plain odd – this always happens to me, though. At such a time I just carry on, knowing that it’ll look fine when finished. And I hope to be finished very soon (mostly cos I’m tired of blue!!)

More soon!

Another Shiva Update (plus something new!)

Meant to get this posted up on Sunday but I’ve been up to my neck in computers, as well as various other things that have required my attention

I haven’t done a great deal to this in the last week, but now the computers are (mostly) done I should be able to pick up the pace

As you may have noticed, the post title mentions “something new”. Yes, I started another stitching, when I really shouldn’t have. Just something small – I was stitching the black while babysitting Windows installs / loading bars / etc. I’m not going to reveal what it is just yet though…unless anyone can guess what it is!

It’s fairly small, and fun to do, but I probably won’t get back to this one for a while what with all the quilt things I’m doing. But it will be back!

Stay tuned! ^^

Shiva Update 3

Been working on this a bit more, but as always in these early stages I feel like I’ve done hardly anything at all! Here’s what I got since the last update:

I’ve been concentrating on the hair in the last few days – in the left side of the square. It’s been difficult because the shades of blue are so similar, but I’m getting there

More soon!

FFX Shiva Update 2

Just a quick update to show my progress on Shiva. So many different shades of blue – it’s hard to tell them apart sometimes. But, I feel it’s going well and I’m happy with it so far.

It looks a bit more of something than my last picture of it, huh? I think I would have done more but I played some FFXIV with my friend at the weekend

More soon! ^^

Busy busy…

…as always! I’ve been hard at work on many things lately, but I got my Shining Force I square all finished – and just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Shining series. My Anri stitching made it to Camelot at roughly the same time! I hope they liked it

Anyway, here’s the finished square:

I’m so happy with it – it really turned out quite well. And I actually played this bit of Shining Force I on Tuesday morning! (Although, I had Gong in my force…whoever took the screenshot I used for the pattern hadn’t picked him up yet! But that’s one for the Shining fans )

After the Shining Day in my house, I decided to crack on and start Shiva from FFX. Haven’t done a lot yet but here it is anyway:

It’ll be a little bit more recognisable next WIP – I hope

In my last post, I mentioned the Pokemon quilt project. I’ve been working closely with Faewren (a member of Sprite Stitch) and we’ve put together what we now call the Patchwork Pokemon Gym. I started a blog – http://patchworkgym.wordpress.com and Faewren (with her husband) set up some forums – http://www.patchworkgym.com/forums/index.php. It’s going quite well so far! ^^ I also hope to be able to help out with the stitching at some point, but that all depends on how my current stuff goes!

Stitching for charity!

Over at Sprite Stitch recently was a discussion on possible charitable projects. Eventually, it was decided that we would make a quilt, with each of us submitting squares to be stitched together. We got a lot of people signing up, so that quilt then became three – a Zelda quilt, a Final Fantasy quilt and a miscellaneous one.

We’re well past the ideas stage and I think that most people have got their patterns sorted – some of us have started work on the squares. Now, I put down ideas for nine squares, that’s three for each quilt:

Top row (misc quilt): Alis from Phantasy Star, Shining Force and Super Metroid;
Middle row (FF quilt): FFX Shiva, FFVIII Rinoa and Cactuar;
Bottom row (Zelda quilt): Golden Goddesses, OoT Great Fairy and LTTP Fairies.

I thought it would be hard to get images to fit the size we all need, which is 96×96 stitches, but by chance I had a lot of good pics that size or similar on my PC – I just had to choose some! I also tried to pick games and pictures that meant something to me personally

Still not too sure about the third column there, and I do have more images ready to be made into squares. I’ll see how it goes! On to progress!!

Damn those energy-saving bulbs! It actually looks a lot brighter than this in daylight. Ah well. This Alis square is going really well, but I can’t finish it until my new stock of colours arrive. So, before I run out of black, I thought I’d make a start on my next one:

Not much to see here, but there’s the beginnings of the Shining Force square.

Work is ongoing, of course, so I hope to update very soon with more on this great collaboration For more infos on the project, please check out the thread on Sprite Stitch to see how we’re progressing!